Pop Quiz Quick, test your knowledge of residential real estate law by answering the following question: What accounts for something like 90% of all litigation involving residential real estate today? A. Actions for “specific performance” — that is, a lawsuit where either the Buyer or Seller asks the court to compel the other party to consummate...Read More
(Actually, 100,000 of ’em) At the current pace, this blog will log its 100,000th page hit sometime later this month. Thanks for visiting — er, reading!Read More
“Has Your Housing Market Hit Bottom?” and Other Disingenuous Questions Making money in the stock market is easy: only buy stocks that go up. If they don’t go up, don’t buy ’em. –Mark Twain One of my biggest peeves as a Realtor is disingenuous articles that suggest that calling housing market tops and bottoms — and...Read More
Buyer and Seller “Buzzkill’s” If you didn’t already know, residential real estate can be a highly emotional affair. Savvy Buyers and Sellers (and their agents) know that . . . and act accordingly. Turn-On’s . . . and Turn-Off’s For Sellers, the biggest emotional turn-off undoubtedly is dealing with a Buyer who’s trying to steal their...Read More
The Demise of Buy-and-Hold? Did you know that waves are an optical illusion (at least to a physicist)? While individual waves move forward — often at a locomotive speed, as in the case of a tsunami — the water molecules in them are actually stationery (more accurately, they move up and down, but end up...Read More
Now? Is it Warm Enough Now? In a post this Spring titled, “The Strategic Use of ‘Coming Soon!’,” I discussed listing agents who alert prospective Buyers about prospective fixes that will be done when weather permits. The obvious corollary to that post: such tactics are time-limited. So, informing prospective Buyers that “The Garage Door Will be Painted When...Read More
